I’ve often thought that when you’re on those toll roads, which give you a ticket with the time stamp that they would come after you if you got to the next toll “too fast”...sounds like we’re heading that way..
Thank God I don’t live in Houston, which is the only city in Texas (to my knowledge) that issues EZ-passes. (They are accepted as payment on the toll roads in Dallas, but nothing more.)
For some reason, it is not really all that difficult for me to keep my car within a few miles of the speed limit. Maybe that is odd. After all, it has a turbo charger.
This plus traffic light cameras. All more ways to gouge us for greens while controlling us like mice in a cage.
A bit misleading. The speed tracked is through the toll gates and NOT on the roads themselves.
I’ve gotten one of the letters myself warning me about speed through the gate. Never one for my speed from one toll gate to the next.
they’re also doing toll-by-plate using nothing more then a camera
pretty soon, you’ll have tolls on as many roads as they can... while also issuing tickets for all sorts of offenses.
This story is about people speeding through the tollbooths, not between the tollbooths. Nobody is using the elapsed time between the time you pass two EZPass no monitors to write tickets.
Aaaand Zactly why I don’t use EZ Pass.
It’s a tool of the givernment.
PA, on the other hand, has 5 mph speed limits at the toll booths in ezPass lanes (interspersed with regular cash lanes and they do monitor speed. There are a few exceptions but you pay your toll at an exit rather than in thru lanes (unlike Delaware and Maryland) so you have to slow somewhat anyway but 5 mph is a wee bit slow.
I've used ezPass for 15 years and have never been cited for going to fast.
It’s for our own good.